&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …

How do banks react to increased interbank competition? Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the … impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and …

competition and the group effect support the profits of firms with a high ethical code. Paradoxically, a strong group identity …

of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …

subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition. …